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  • On the other hand, they seemed awkward and uncoordinated, and although they dressed in workingmen's clothes and in workingmen's heavy boots, with their slight physiques, slender wrists, and soft hands, they were definitely not the hard-muscled and athletic working men that my father and my uncles prided themselves in being.

    I Never Was George L. Chieffet 2010

  • Relaxed into the feel of him pressed against her, the hard-muscled strength of him cradling her.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • Not like the old man we ate yesterday, tough to dryness with age, nor like the young men whose members were too hard-muscled, but tender, so tender that he will melt in our gullets ere our bellies receive him.

    THE WATER BABY 2010

  • Relaxed into the feel of him pressed against her, the hard-muscled strength of him cradling her.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • Relaxed into the feel of him pressed against her, the hard-muscled strength of him cradling her.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • His hard-skinned, hard-muscled face just flows to sourness.

    CHAPTER XIV 2010

  • Would men risk that sort of thing, even a strong, bicycle-riding, hard-muscled man?

    Why Don’t More Women Ride? « PubliCola 2010

  • Not like the old man we ate yesterday, tough to dryness with age, nor like the young men whose members were too hard-muscled, but tender, so tender that he will melt in our gullets ere our bellies receive him.

    The Water Baby 2010

  • Suddenly, he was around hard-muscled men discussing the intricacies of the sport—how to play a right-handed pull hitter who was facing a pitcher with a slow curve, how big a lead to take from first base against a southpaw with a quick delivery.

    WILLIE MAYS JAMES S. HIRSCH 2010

  • His body, slim but powerfully built, hard-muscled when he held her close.

    THE FORBIDDEN GAME L.J. SMITH 2010

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